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What's Your Song?
Exodus 15.1b-ll, 20,21 September 12, 1993
How many of you like to sing? What songs do you sing? When do you sing them? Why do you sing them? Sing when we are sad... Sing when we are glad... Praise happens when we are freed enough to participate in what is our rightful calling, yielding our life to God. Cry of hurt, answered by a response of salvation, responded to by praise. This all happens when three things take place, sacred time, sacred space and sacred word. That's what happened in the Scripture story of the morning:
Exo 15:1] Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and my might, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's Cod, and I will exalt him.
The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is his name.
"Pharaoh's chariots and his army he cast into the sea; his picked officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power-- your right hand, O LORD, shattered the enemy.
In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you sent out your fury, it consumed them like stubble.
At the Mast of your nostrils the waters piled up, the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
You blew with your wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
"Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in splendor, doing wonders?
[Exo 15:20] Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.
And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea."
They told this story again and again. They broke out in song over the change, and named the one who worked the change. There they were at the time, in the place, with these words.
I. What do you consider sacred time? When is it that you say, "This is a sacred moment?" Possibly when we are quietly sitting in our living rooms after the children are in bed and the house is quiet for the first time. Or possibly it was the time you remember when you were confirmed, or married, or received for the first time holy communion. Or the moment you first experienced the birth of a child. Or that time in which your life was given back to you, fresh, a clean page upon which to write. Sacred time is that moment in which we experience transcendence, that is someone above us, beyond us, yet with us. We experience it as a gift, something that is given to us; we did not earn. Sacred Time. This is the time to praise God.
A. God's time
1. Praise to God. O for a thousand tongues. 57 his grace!
2. My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim, to spread through at) of the earth abroad the honors of thy name.
3. Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease;' tis music in the sinner's ears,' tis life, and health, and peace.
4. He breaks the power of canceled sin, he sets the prisoner free; his blood can made the
Dr. Arthur J. Landwehr
What's Your Song?@
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What's Your Song?
Exodus 15.1b-ll, 20,21 September 12, 1993
How many of you like to sing? What songs do you sing? When do you sing them? Why do you sing them? Sing when we are sad... Sing when we are glad... Praise happens when we are freed enough to participate in what is our rightful calling, yielding our life to God. Cry of hurt, answered by a response of salvation, responded to by praise. This all happens when three things take place, sacred time, sacred space and sacred word. That's what happened in the Scripture story of the morning:
Exo 15:1] Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and my might, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's Cod, and I will exalt him.
The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is his name.
"Pharaoh's chariots and his army he cast into the sea; his picked officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power-- your right hand, O LORD, shattered the enemy.
In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you sent out your fury, it consumed them like stubble.
At the Mast of your nostrils the waters piled up, the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
You blew with your wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
"Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in splendor, doing wonders?
[Exo 15:20] Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.
And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea."
They told this story again and again. They broke out in song over the change, and named the one who worked the change. There they were at the time, in the place, with these words.
I. What do you consider sacred time? When is it that you say, "This is a sacred moment?" Possibly when we are quietly sitting in our living rooms after the children are in bed and the house is quiet for the first time. Or possibly it was the time you remember when you were confirmed, or married, or received for the first time holy communion. Or the moment you first experienced the birth of a child. Or that time in which your life was given back to you, fresh, a clean page upon which to write. Sacred time is that moment in which we experience transcendence, that is someone above us, beyond us, yet with us. We experience it as a gift, something that is given to us; we did not earn. Sacred Time. This is the time to praise God.
A. God's time
1. Praise to God. O for a thousand tongues. 57 his grace!
2. My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim, to spread through at) of the earth abroad the honors of thy name.
3. Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease;' tis music in the sinner's ears,' tis life, and health, and peace.
4. He breaks the power of canceled sin, he sets the prisoner free; his blood can made the
Dr. Arthur J. Landwehr
What's Your Song?@
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